DE PERE, WIS.: A groundbreaking ceremony to transform the Sensenbrenner Memorial Union at St. Norbert College into the state-of-the-art Michels Commons will be held on Friday, May 6, at 2:30 p.m. on the Sensenbrenner Union Patio.
Members of the Michels family, who gave a $7.7 million dollar gift for the project, will be on hand for the ceremony. St. Norbert College President Thomas Kunkel, board chairman Bill Auriemma, and vice president of mission and heritage Fr. Jay Fostner, O.Praem., will be present along with faculty, staff, students, St. Norbert trustees and select close friends of the college. Following the ceremony, an ice cream social will be held.
The Michels family has long been a part of the St. Norbert College community. Ruth and the late Dale Michels sent three of their four children to the college.
Michels Commons will include a ballroom, reception spaces and outdoor patios. In addition, Ruth’s Marketplace will reinvent the college dining hall as a stylish, health-conscious food court with a dramatic two-story atrium overlooking De Pere’s Third Street, and Dale’s Sports Lounge will be a casual dining and gathering space with multiple large-screen televisions and other amenities. Construction of Michels Commons will be completed by May 2012.
For more information on Michels Commons or to follow construction activities, visit http://www.snc.edu/michelscommons/.
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Michels Corporation
Michels Corporation of Brownsville, Wisconsin is one of North America’s leading engineering and construction firms, recently ranked as one of the Top 500 Contractors and Top 10 Utility Contractors in the United States by the Engineering News-Record. Michels Corporation has offices throughout the United States and Canada and employs more than 3,500 people.
St. Norbert College
The only Norbertine college in the world, St. Norbert is a four-year, Catholic liberal arts college, devoted to the Norbertine traditions of community, prayer and service to others. Founded in 1898 by Abbot Bernard Pennings as a school to prepare men for the priesthood, St. Norbert College became coeducational in 1952. Today the residential campus serves approximately 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students hailing from throughout the United States and more than 30 countries, and offers study abroad opportunities in 37 countries.
St. Norbert College is located on the banks of the Fox River in the residential community of De Pere, Wisconsin, neighboring Green Bay – a metropolitan area of more than 200,000, rich in culture, business and opportunity. The academic excellence of the college is nationally recognized by U.S. News & World Report’s America’s BestColleges. http://www.snc.edu
